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COVID-19: Portugal's rapid response to the pandemic explained to the German station ARD1 by Alexandre Abrantes, from ENSP NOVA

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Professor Alexandre Abrantes, from NOVA National School of Public Health, spoke with the German television channel ARD1 about Portugal's rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic that allowed the country to move away from the most critical scenarios seen in neighboring countries, especially Spain.

The article portrays the Portuguese situation through the scenario experienced at the Military Hospital of Porto and in a nursing home in Branca (Albergaria-a-Velha, Aveiro), exposing the fragility of the elderly population and showing the actions that have been carried out to contain the pandemic in this group, such as the use of military health workers.

In declarations to the German station, Alexandre Abrantes explains that the fact that the infections arrived with some delay in Portugal constituted an advantage, in allowing the government to prepare for what had happened in Spain and Italy two weeks before.

Read the Portuguese translation of the article, available in its original German version at the webite da ARD1.